That would be the cynical take. Kenny Jacoby has the scoop in the Daily Emerald here:
Three Oregon football players who had off-the-field issues have been dismissed from the team, UO athletics spokesman Craig Pintens confirmed Monday afternoon.
No news yet on the General Counsel’s investigation of the Duck Athletic Department’s threats to Jacoby over his investigative stories about the recent assaults by their football players. Meanwhile the NYT has an interesting story on new research on football and brain damage, here.
It’s interesting that the new football coaches standards are so much higher than the basketball coach. It sure makes the football coach/players much less of a target for non-fans. Still impossible to root for that basketball program.